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Date: 1818

The "lyre" of the soul may be "Eolian tun'd"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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"Now I have tasted her sweet soul to the core / All other depths are shallow."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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"Great Muse, thou know'st what prison, / Of flesh and bone, curbs, and confines, and frets / Our spirit's wings."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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A gentle soul may have no revenge in it and be whole in tenderness

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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The soul may be bent like a "spiritual bow" and "twang'd" inwardly

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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Herald thought may be sent into a wilderness to dress an uncertain path with green

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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"My silent thoughts are echoing from these shells."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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Thought may be wooed "to steal about the labyrinth in the soul"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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The faithful bless the Lord's "empire o'er the willing soul"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1818

"The lake unruffled [i.e., the mind], will reflect / A picture fair of earth and skies; / But how distorted its effect, / When ripples o'er the surface rise."

— Park, Thomas (1759-1834)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.